I guess the silence is inevitable up to a certain degree when there's no album news and the last one more than two years old already. In addition, facebook is the only news source atm, and not many people want to comment twice, there and here... (besides fb killing any interest in writing more than one sentence or word, anyway ) But in my opinion all this TT- and Flavio-bullshit back then definitely was one reason among some others for people to flee.
I'm sure there'll be more traffic here with some album news though

How much has our dear testosterone gradually abandoned our bodies? Making us limp while we blindly traverse the glands of the giant spirit. But we resurge, akin to a sudden tsunmi of sugar free coca-cola on a desert or a mcdonald´s that dares to open business on the moon. We are not dead at all just tired and sleepy and high-blood-pressured. Let us drink tall glasses of chocolate milk for our collective fortitude in the face of inevitability.

How much has our dear testosterone gradually abandoned our bodies? Making us limp while we blindly traverse the glands of the giant spirit. But we resurge, akin to a sudden tsunmi of sugar free coca-cola on a desert or a mcdonald´s that dares to open business on the moon. We are not dead at all just tired and sleepy and high-blood-pressured. Let us drink tall glasses of chocolate milk for our collective fortitude in the face of inevitability.

Nah, it was already kinda dead by the time of the great Tolkki/Strato dramas of the last decade. I've been seeing the same 20 - 30 people around and nobody else really. People haven't really paid attention to php forums since the advent of FB, Twitter and Reddit. That Flavio jerk just happened to be around...

No need to feel so afraid, colors last a lifetime and fade to gray...Tony Kakko

How much has our dear testosterone gradually abandoned our bodies? Making us limp while we blindly traverse the glands of the giant spirit. But we resurge, akin to a sudden tsunmi of sugar free coca-cola on a desert or a mcdonald´s that dares to open business on the moon. We are not dead at all just tired and sleepy and high-blood-pressured. Let us drink tall glasses of chocolate milk for our collective fortitude in the face of inevitability.

I think that Flavio is one of the biggest problem for this forum, since his poor trolling skills, his bad english and is retard surely stave off the users.
I think also that band forums are pretty dead by themselves, at least those about "small" band like Strato, in 2018 a little people use it or cares about the music.
We need to admit it, guys, we're are the lasts.

Jesus it's been so fucking long... he probs killed it and also forums just aren't popular anymore. Doesn't help that Stratovarius is a small band either so it's not like anyone is looking for this thing. I still try to check in.